Biography/ Background

Dr Douglas Bardsley is a Senior Lecturer in Geography, Environment and Population within the School of Social Sciences at Adelaide University.

Trained as a social geographer, an educator and an agricultural scientist his research interests over the last 18 years have focused on environmental and agro-ecological risk management, links between conservation and development, and education for sustainable development. His research has been undertaken while working for the South Australian Government and while based in universities and research institutes in Australia, Switzerland and the UK, and has involved socio-ecological studies in Australia, Thailand, Turkey, Switzerland, Nepal and the European Union. Over the last few years he has been researching climate change adaptation in the Adelaide-Mt Lofty Ranges and Alinytjara Wilurara regions of South Australia, and planning for bushfire risk mitigation within the Mediterranean biome.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Geography), University of Melbourne

Post-Graduate Diploma of Education, University of Melbourne

Master of Arts by Coursework (Development Studies), Flinders University

Bachelor of Agricultural Science (Honours, Agronomy), University of Adelaide

Teaching Interests

Dr Bardsley is currently supervising 2 students undertaking PhD Dissertations and convenes the Master of Environmental Policy and Management at the University of Adelaide.

Wiseman N.D. and Bardsley D.K. (2016) Monitoring to learn, learning to monitor: A critical analysis of opportunities for Indigenous community-based monitoring of environmental change in Australian rangelands. Geographical Research 54:52-71

Bardsley D.K. (2015) Limits to adaptation or a second modernity? Responses to climate change in the context of failing socio-ecosystems. Environment, Development and Sustainability 17:41-55.

Fielke S.J. and Bardsley D.K. (2014) The importance of farmer education in South Australia. Land Use Policy 39:301-312.

Hugo G.J. and Bardsley D.K. (2014) Migration and environmental change in Asia. In Piguet E. and Laczko F. (eds.) People on the Move in a Changing Climate: The Regional Impact of Environmental Change on Migration. International Organization for Migration, Geneva, pp21-48.

Pandey R. and Bardsley D.K. (2013) Human ecological implications of climate change in the Himalaya: Pilot studies of adaptation in agro-ecosystems within two villages from Middle Hills and Tarai, Nepal. Impacts World 2013. International Conference on Climate Change Effects. Potsdam, Germany, May, 2013.

Wiseman N.D. and Bardsley D.K. (2013) Climate change and indigenous natural resource management: A review of socio-ecological interactions in the Alinytjara Wilurara NRM region. Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability 18:1024-1045.

Bardsley D.K. and Wiseman N.D. (2012) Climate change vulnerability and social development for remote indigenous communities of South Australia. Global Environmental Change 22:713-723.

Bardsley D.K. and Pech P. (2012) Defining spaces of resilience within the neoliberal paradigm: Could French land use classifications guide support for risk management within an Australian regional context? Human Ecology 40:129-143.

Bardsley D.K. (2010) Research to support sustainable alternatives to the productivist paradigm in an era of climatic risk. In: Proceedings of the SymposiumInnovation and Sustainable Development in Agriculture and Food - ISDA 2010. Coudel E., Devautour H., Soulard C. and Hubert B. (eds.). Montpellier, June 28 to July 1, 2010, Cirad, Inra, SupAgro, Montpellier, France.

Bardsley D.K. (2010) NatureLinks: A critical response to climate change impacts on biodiversity in South Australia. South Australian Geographer 25:3-10, 42-44.

Hugo G., Bardsley D.K., Tan Y., Sharma V., Williams M. and Bedford R. (2009) Climate Change and Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region. Final Report to the Asian Development Bank, ABD, Manila. Available in part as: Asian Development Bank (2011) Climate Change and Migration in Asia and the Pacific. ADB, Manila.

Bardsley D.K. (2008) Agrodiversity in the Asia-Pacific. A review of Connell, John and Waddell, Eric (eds.) (2007) Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia Pacific: Between Local and Global, London: Routledge. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 49:133-135.

Bardsley, D.K. (2007) A philosophy of diversity for sustainable agricultural development: Responding to climate change by empowering people. The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 3(2):19-28.

Bardsley, D.K. (2007) Education for all in a global era? The social justice of Australian secondary school education in a risk society. Journal of Education Policy 22:493-508.

Bardsley D. and Thomas I. (2006) In situ agrobiodiversity conservation: examples from Nepal, Turkey and Switzerland in the first decade of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 49:653-674.

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